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Leadership

Texas AFT is governed by an Executive Council made up of presidents from local unions across the state. Officers (president and secretary-treasurer) are elected every two years by delegates at a state convention.

President: Louis Malfaro

Malfaro served as president of Education Austin from 1999-2010, and also served as president of the Austin Federation of Teachers, from 1992-1999.

Malfaro began working as a bilingual elementary school teacher in 1987. He has served as president of the Austin Central Labor Council (2003-2007) and is an AFT vice president, a member of the AFT Teachers program and policy council and a member of the AFT organizing committee.

Secretary-Treasurer: Ray McMurrey

McMurrey is a former president of the Corpus Christi American Federation of Teachers. CCAFT, Local #3456, which was the home of two former Texas AFT presidents—John Cole and Linda Bridges—who also served as presidents of the local.

Before serving as the elected, four-term president of CCAFT, and elected president of the Coastal Bend Labor Council, he was an 18-year secondary social studies teacher. His teaching experience included seven years in Eagle Pass ISD, along the Texas-Mexico border, and 11 years in Corpus Christi ISD. McMurrey graduated from St. Edward’s University here in 1991.

Texas AFT represents all non-administrative certified and classified public school employees. We represent the interests of teachers, counselors, librarians, diagnosticians, custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, nurses, teaching assistants, clerical employees, and the other men and women who work so hard to make our schools work. We also represent employees in universities, colleges and community and junior colleges.

Texas AFT is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and AFL-CIO. Photographs and illustrations, as well as text, cannot be used without permission from the AFT.